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Wycliffe Bible Translators.

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Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:

Collection 115 Oral History Interview with Raymond Elliott

 Collection
Identifier: CN 115
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Raymond Leroy Elliott (1924-2008), Wycliffe Bible translator working among the Ixil Indian tribe in Guatemala. Interview topics include educational work and life in Wheaton, translation activities, missionary training, mission responsibilities, and political, social, and cultural events in Central America. The time period covered by the interviews is roughly 1924-1980.Raymond Elliott was interviewed by Chris Matthews, a Wheaton College graduate...
Dates: Created: 1980

Collection 116 Oral History Interviews with Helen Elliott

 Collection
Identifier: CN 116
Scope and Contents Oral History interviews conducted with Helen Ruth Belcher Elliot (1927-2012), missionary with Wycliffe Bible Translators to the Ixil Indian tribe in Guatemala. Topics include Wheaton College during the 1940s, field experiences, Guatemalan culture and religion, and family activities. Topics covered in the interview include:  Elliott's childhood, marriage and early family life, education at Wheaton College (including courses, academic and social life), decision to become a missionary with...
Dates: Created: 1980

Collection 302 Oral History Interview with David L. Farah

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Identifier: CN 302
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with David Livingstone Farah, in which he discusses his upbringing, education at Wheaton College, work as an administrator with Wycliffe Bible Translators in Peru and Bolivia, and relationships with other religious bodies, national groups and governments. Other topics include the 1950 revival at Wheaton College; Wycliffe jungle training in Mexico; the Catholic Church in Bolivia and the prevalence of syncretism; differences between Peru and Bolivia; description of...
Dates: Created: 1985

Collection 314 Oral History Interview with Martha H. Philips

 Collection
Identifier: CN 314
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Martha H. Philips (1905-1996) in which she describes her childhood, education, missionary work in China with China Inland Mission at Chefoo School as a teacher of missionary children, her internment by the Japanese at Temple Hill and Wei Xian camps, repatriation, working with Wycliffe Bible Translators among the Zapotec Indians in southern Mexico, and traveling throughout the world representing the mission. The time period covered by the interviews is roughly...
Dates: Created: 1985

Collection 351 Oral History Interview with Burt E. Long

 Collection
Identifier: CN 351
Scope and Contents

Oral history interviews with Burt E. Long by Wheaton College student Heather Conley in which Long discusses his memories of Paul Rader and the Chicago Gospel Tabernacle, his education at Wheaton College, and his decades of services as a medical missionary for Sudan Interior Mission in Niger and Nigeria. The time period covered by the interviews is 1930-1986.

Burt Long was interviewed by Wheaton College student Heather Conley on November 26 and December 3, 1986.

Dates: Created: 1986

Collection 407 Records of InterAct Ministries

 Collection
Identifier: CN 407
Scope and Contents Correspondence, minutes, newsletters, brochures, handbook, video tapes, and historical sketches documenting the ministry of the mission. Topics covered include administration of the mission, the Arctic Bible Institute, infant baptism, the Moravian Church, Arctic Training Center, Victory High School, Multi Media Production, the correspondence school program, Victory Bible Camp, Slavic Gospel Association's transfer of its work in Alaska to AMI, Native Institute of Canada, Native Bible Centre...
Dates: Created: 1947-1989

Collection 409 Papers of David D. Thomas

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Identifier: CN 409
Scope and Contents Correspondence, photographs, negatives, and clippings relating to the linguistic and missionary work of David and Dorothy Thomas in the Philippines, Vietnam (especially with the Chrau tribe), Cambodia, and Thailand with Wycliffe Bible Translators from 1954-1975. The bulk of the content consists of David and Dorothy's letters to his mother, Ruth, who lived in Wheaton, IL. Topics covered in the correspondence include information on the Thomas family, missionary work in the Philippines, and...
Dates: Created: 1954-1975

Collection 427 Oral History Interviews with Americo Saavedra

 Collection
Identifier: CN 427
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Americo Saavedra, a Peruvian-born missionary working with HCJB in Ecuador, in which he describes his childhood, family, conversion, Catholicism in Peru and Ecuador, radio station HCJB and its ministry, Quito, Ecuador, his decision to be a missionary, employment with Wycliffe Bible Translators in Peru. Other topics include his education at Moody Bible Institute, Christian education in Ecuador, informal education, Summer Institute of Linguistics, the state of the...
Dates: Created: 1990

Collection 508 Oral History Interviews with Barbara L. Collins

 Collection
Identifier: CN 508
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Barbara Lynn (Miner) Collins in which she describes her childhood; family's religious background; conversion to Christianity; spiritual development in college and young professional life; acceptance as a missionary by Africa Inland Mission (AIM); arrival on the mission field in Kenya; work among the Rendile and Kikuyu peoples; raising children on the mission field; development of women's program at Africa Inland Church Missionary College; work among women refugees...
Dates: Created: 1995

Collection 510 Oral History Interviews with Erik S. Barnett

 Collection
Identifier: CN 510
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Erik Stanley Barnett (1910-2006) in which he describes his childhood in Kenya as the son of missionary parents; his own work in that country as pastor, church planter, educator and administrator with Africa Inland Mission (AIM); the internal developments of AIM and of the Africa Inland Church in Kenya during the twentieth century. Other topics discussed include: his parents’ missionary service in Kenya among the Maasai people; changes in AIM missionary training...
Dates: Created: 1995

Kenneth Fleming Papers.

 Collection
Identifier: CN 657
Scope and Contents Collection contains letters, articles, audio recordings, photographs, and other material collected by Kenneth Fleming relating to the death of five American missionaries in Ecuador in 1956, including his brother Peter Fleming, in Ecuador with the Plymouth Brethren mission agency Christian Missions In Many Lands. In particular, the papers document the story of Peter’s involvement in the so-called “Operation Auca” and his death, along with missionaries Jim Elliot, Ed McCully, Nate Saint and...
Dates: Created: 1946-2011

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Evangelistic work. 10
Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 9
Missionaries. 9
Christian education. 8
Indigenous church administration 8
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Missionaries -- Training of. 8
Bible. 7
Catholic Church. 7
Language in missionary work. 7
Tribes. 7
Bible -- Translating. 6
Children of missionaries. 6
Church and state. 6
Conversion. 6
Christianity and culture. 5
Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 5
Women missionaries. 5
Animism. 4
Bible colleges 4
Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 4
Christian life. 4
Education 4
Evangelicalism. 4
Linguistics 4
Missionaries' spouses. 4
Missions -- Educational work. 4
Women 4
Women -- Religious life. 4
Baptism. 3
Christian leadership. 3
Christian martyrs. 3
Evangelicalism -- United States. 3
Family. 3
Fund raising. 3
Indians of South America. 3
Linguists 3
Linguists -- United States. 3
Medical care 3
Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 3
Missions, Medical. 3
Missions. 3
Pentecostalism. 3
World War, 1939-1945. 3
Animism -- Guatemala. 2
Catholic Church. -- Guatemala. 2
Christian education -- Ecuador. 2
Christian martyrs -- Ecuador. 2
Christianity and culture -- United States. 2
Church growth. 2
College students -- Religious life. 2
College students. 2
Communism. 2
Conversion -- Personal narratives. 2
Culture shock. 2
Ecuador 2
Education -- Guatemala. 2
Evangelistic work -- Ecuador. 2
Evangelistic work -- Guatemala. 2
Evangelistic work -- Kenya. 2
Fundamentalism. 2
Great Britain 2
Guatemala 2
Guatemala -- Economic conditions. 2
Guatemala -- Race relations. 2
Guatemala -- Religion 2
Indians of Central America 2
Indians of Central America -- Guatemala -- Missions. 2
Indians of Central America -- Guatemala. 2
Indians of South America -- Ecuador. 2
Indigenous church administration -- Ecuador. 2
Indigenous church administration -- Guatemala. 2
Indigenous church administration -- Kenya. 2
Ixil Indians -- Missions. 2
Ixil Indians -- Religion. 2
Ixil Indians. 2
Linguistics -- Guatemala. 2
Literacy 2
Literacy -- Guatemala. 2
Marriage. 2
Medical care -- Guatemala. 2
Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 2
Missions -- Finance. 2
Missions -- Guatemala. 2
Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 2
Missions -- Kenya. 2
Missions -- Peru. 2
Missions -- Public relations. 2
Missions, Medical -- Guatemala. 2
Moody Bible Institute -- Alumni. 2
Organizational change. 2
Polygamy. 2
Race relations. 2
Religious institutions. 2
Rural missions. 2
Sunday schools. 2
Theological seminaries. 2
Tribes -- Guatemala. 2
Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Religious life and customs. 2
Worship (Christian) 2
Aboriginal Australians. 1
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